VIOPS: Proven Practices for Deploying and Managing VMware : Unanswered Threads - Logging

Community Help wanted - How to Find ESX host's CPU Usage and Memory Usage

virtualbox — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:00:17 GMT

Often I have been asked this question that how do you check the ESX Host's CPU and Memory Usage. We can easily check this by clicking on the host on the Virtual Center and can see the CPU Usage. Also at the same screen I can see the Memory Usage as well.

For an example I assume I am having a box of 8 CPU each 3.2 GHz. So at the Summary screen I can see that CPU Usage as : 8303 MHz.

Now for memory I can see that I have a memory of 32GB and usage is 10GB.

So the real question here is I need to know these usage (CPU and Memory) from vm-support log files. I want to replay the log file and want to know what is the usage for these two resources.

Thanks in advance.

Rg,

Prasenjit S

How to arrange log analysis lists?

schambers — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:35:18 GMT

Goal: to group log messages (and monitoring alerts, like SNMP traps next) into groups so you can work out:

a) CRIT What do I really have to worry about - immediate action - like a full COS root filesystem, or something that how high impact/urgency

b) WARN What messages do I need to be aware of, like a path failure or disk capacity warnings, something with medium impact/urgency

c) WATCH What messages should I track for trending - like %RDY time for a guest?

d) IGNORE What messages don't I care about?

Is there a standard already for the colour scheme for these kind of message groups? I've chosen what makes sense to me... does anyone else have input for this grouping?